VOLTA6 Edition - Troels Carlsen

 

VOLTA6 EDITION

TROELS CARLSEN | Denmark

born1973 in Copenhagen, Denmark

 

represented by V1 Gallery

 

 

For Volta6 Danish artist Troels Carlsen has created a limited-edition lithograph, with a unique hand-painted intervention or detail in his signature style, making each piece distinctive in itself. Carlsen’s work embodies a thematic unity exploring human existence and challenges the idea of a single, unified truth, and poses questions about our social, biological and historic heritage to which we are all linked.

 

 

While Carlsen’s work ranges over a variety of media, including large scale installation, he is also well-known for his use on antique engravings and prints from the field of anatomy and biology; on top of these he paints new scenes, like windows to another level, that convey his own viewpoint. With the scientific drawing as the physical foundation, Carlsen sets up his own scenarios, moving beyond that first layer to create a palimpsest that enmeshes us in new worlds of anthroposophical combinations. The antique charts and prints are scarred with the painted physical openings, both exits and entrances, where new motifs are born and develop. These works not only illustrate how one life-cycle replaces another but also, through the rips and tears, points back to what was. 

 



For VOLTA6 Carlsen has returned to a signature image or theme that he uses more rarely now but that populated much of his early work : the ape and its relation to humanity. Here the excited Macaque monkey is portrayed as a a reflection of Man -- in fact the artist himself -- or vice versa. Like a playing card, the image is inverted to portray a classical dualism.  The image of the monkey and the self-portrait are hand-drawings executed in crayon directly onto the lithography stone; other motifs are hand painted or applied with collage to the lithographic print, making each piece entirely unique. 

 

 

Represented by V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, this last May 2010, Carlsen opened his well-received solo exhibition "Man You All" at Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner in Berlin, and has recently shown at Voges Gallery in Frankfurt in the group show Papermoon. 

 

The VOLTA6 edition with Troels Carlsen has been kindly supported by Edition Copenhagen one of the leading lithographic workshops in Europe, founded in 1959 by Carl Urwald and now run by three partners: Rasmus Urwald, Dannie Vieten and Peter Wissing Sørensen. Located at Christianshavn in Copenhagen, the site houses both a lithographic workshop and a gallery space. Each year the gallery invites a number of international and Danish artists to create lithographs in the workshop. The invited artists have all exhibited widely in galleries, contemporary art centers and museums. Besides inviting established artists Edition Copenhagen also aims at working with new and upcoming artists. 

 

 

 

Original lithographic stone print, 2010

 

Size:  76 x 56 cm

Edition Nr:  35 + 10 AP

Paper: Vhlien Arches, 250 Gr. Cotton Paper

Price : 550 Euros (Nrs. 1-10), 650 Euros (Nrs 11-20)